Roger Wicker

Our challenge is to be able to disprove the false narrative that Russia peddles in the region, that the United States is withdrawing, that we are not a reliable partner.

Can you give us any guidance as to when a decision might be made about the JCPOA?

We cannot control that.

I heartily endorse that kind of sentiment coming from a bipartisan panel today.

Wow, if we could make some progress in this Committee or in this Senate or in this Congress on that issue, we would be doing a lot to help the American public.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I have a really good feeling that we're going to be able to work together in a bipartisan manner.

The Senator is very kind, and time is not that pressing. I am actually expecting two or three colleagues, and perhaps we will engage in a colloquy after that. I do appreciate my friend's courtesy. Climate Change

We are getting dangerously to the point, really, where the members of the majority party are going to have make a decision about changing the rules.

It is well taken, we have a duly elected and constituted President of the United States. And he is entitled to put his team into place.

The Army has reached an inflection point: We can no longer afford to choose between improving our existing systems and developing new ones. We must do both.

Thank you, and I might point out that Senator Blumenthal is a co-sponsor of that, and I appreciate his bipartisan support for this.

This is a balanced, completely bipartisan bill that would fully protect both the entitlement of Amateur Radio volunteers...

The House version of this Bill, H.R. 555 passed the House unanimously in January of 2017.

We have heard concerns about the costs of this, but we have also heard that, with the development of sensors to detect the presence of other vehicles, we might as well go ahead and spend the extra $30 to $50 to incorporate heat-detection…

Has Twitter told these data analytic companies that the purchases of this data cannot be used for counterterrorism purposes?

You protect the privacy of your users, even if a Federal agency wants to surveil that public information for anti-terrorism purposes?

So it wasn't so much an attempt to get one candidate elected over the other. It was knowing there was going to be loser and that relatively half of the population who supported that loser would think their vote hasn't counted.

These are real benefits, real disasters, real damages that haven't happened to people because we are able to do this.

I am told that there is a 54:1 benefit-to-cost ratio for what we have done so far in the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project.

This MR&T program and the other infrastructure that we have all around the Country is just vital to people's lives.

There is bipartisan support for doing as much as we can as quickly as possible to alleviate the suffering there.

I appreciate Senator Gillibrand mentioning the Island of Vieques and the situation in Puerto Rico.

We are going to have to come together across the aisle on ways that we can streamline the permitting processes.

I am not advocating doing away with flood control, but it is actually flood control over the centuries and decades that has caused the absence of sediment and the loss of land, is that correct?